[MR] handcoverings links (Fwd: Aoife-Links Digest, Vol 11, Issue 4)

Tue Sep 27 12:58:45 PDT 2005

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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:17:37 -0400
From: "Aoife"  <aoife at scatoday.net>
Subject: [Aoife-Links] By My Hand: Gloves and  Mittens
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Greetings, my Faithful Readers!

This week's  list is all about keeping your hands toasty and spiffy looking 
in the  upcoming cooler autumn weather. Let's face it, those skiing gloves 
are  going to look mighty out-of-place with your garb. If you've wondered 
about  the historical aspects of mittens and gloves, don't worry--they 
predate  history! So if your planned gloves have five fingers, or only three, 
or if  you definitely want a certain ethnic style of mittens, the following 
links  are for you.

As always, please share this where a ready audience can be  found.

Cheers!

Aoife

Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos  Mon
Riverouge
Endless Hills
Aethelmearc

Stefan's  Florlegium-gloves.msg
http://www.florilegium.org/files/ACCESS/gloves-msg.html
(Excerpt  from ONE message of many) As it happens, I just read a book about 
the  knitting
technique that Arastorm (sp?) refers to.  You knit a pair  of
wool mittens several sizes too big, and then you felt them.
This  involves putting the mittens in very hot water, and rubbing
them over a  felting board (looks somewhat like a washboard, only
with slightly sharper  edges.) You keep doing this until they've
shrunk enough to fit. Apparently  (I haven't tried the technique
yet, though I intend to), this results in  water resistent
and wind resistent mitts that keep you warm even when  soaking
wet (a quality which I am sure Maritime fishermen  appreciate).

3 Fingered Gloves by I Marc  Carlson
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/gloves/gloves.htm
(Site  Excerpt) Back in Jan 2002, a question was raised on the 75 Years Group 
at  Yahoogroups  (A re-enactment discussion list focusing on c1300)  
regarding the use of gloves in the 1300s.  Although a number of  depictions 
of the more familiar 5 fingered gloves were seen, there were  also several 
examples of 3 fingered gloves found  in pictures from  the 1300s and 1400s by 
"Stella", "Roel Oosterop", "Joeri Teeuwisse",  "Melanie Wilson", and 
"Catherine Mensforth".

The Place of Gloves in  Free Masonry
http://www.freemasonry.org/leonzeldis/white_gloves.htm
This  is a treatise on the history of gloves. I'll bet all you white glove  
wearers out there didn't know about the link between color and certain  
organizations....

More Medieval Egyptian  Knitting
http://home.earthlink.net/~lilinah/Knitting/EgyptKnit4.html
(Site  Excerpt) These are knit of fingering weight wool, except for the space 

dyed stripes, which is DK weight. The space dyed yarn is not a blue-purple  
as it appears in this scan; it is actually a very muted color. I am using  US 
size 1 needles, my gauge is 9 stitches and 10 rows per inch. They are  knit 
beginning at the tip and worked toward the cuff, like many socks and  mittens 
in Eastern Europe, Turkey, and other parts of Northern  Europe

Gloves of Emperor Frederick  II
http://medieval.webcon.net.au/extant_gloves_frederick_ii.html
(Site  excerpt) These gloves were made in the early 13th century for the  
coronation of Emperor Frederick II. As with many of the other sumptuous  
garments that make up the Insignia of the Holy Roman Empire, the gloves  were 
made in the Royal Workshops of Sicily. These gloves were worn by the  Emperor 
at his coronation in 1220.

The Renaissance Tailor-From  Pattern to Hand
http://www.vertetsable.com/demos_gloves.htm
(Site  Excerpt) The most difficult part of making gloves is not in the  
construction. Nor is it in the drafting of the pattern (although there are  
some surprises there). Nope... the most difficult part of making gloves  lies 
in choosing the proper materials and preparing those materials. I can  hear 
you saying to yourself, "wait a minute... that's always been the easy  
part!". Well, normally, it is.

Costumer's Manifesto: Elizabethan  Gauntlet Mittens
http://www.glove.org/gallery/elizmit.asp
SEE  ALSO
Gloves and cuffs by Dyan du Lac Calendre
Ansteorra -  Rosenfeld
http://www.glove.org/gallery/dyan.asp
The King's Glove
by  Mirianna Wrenne (Valerie  Oswald)
http://www.glove.org/gallery/mirianna.asp
Gloves to be presented  to the Kingdom of the East at Gulf War X March  2001
http://www.glove.org/gallery/gulfwar.asp
Gloves with Blackwork  cuffs by Lyssa Clark
http://www.glove.org/gallery/lclark.asp
Gloves by L  Scoville
http://www.glove.org/gallery/sscoville.asp
Gloves by R W  Trump
http://www.glove.org/gallery/rwtrump.asp

The Glove  Website
http://www.glove.org/
(Site Excerpt) When I first set out to  create this page in June of 1997 I 
did so knowing that there were no other  sites out there like this one. I 
have since found out that the reason for  that was because this is a secret 
art. It is protected still in Europe by  guilds. Free patterns for making 
gloves were nonexistent on the web. I  created this site so that the art of 
making gloves would not continue to  die the death that we are seeing.
SEE ALSO
Bibliography and Links to  Glove Books
for sale, most are out of  print.
http://www.glove.org/glovebooks.htm

Evidence of Gloves from  the 12th to the 16th  Centuries
http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~kmerkley/gloves.htm#N_6_
(Site  Excerpt) Archaeological evidence for mittens(1) predates the medieval  
period in Europe and hand coverings of some sort have been a necessity if  
not also a fashion accessory throughout the medieval period. This article  
focusses on evidence from the 12th century(2) to the end of the  Elizabethan 
period in Europe and the British Isles and deals only with  gloves.

Are You Wearing Woolies? Medieval Knitting,  Naalbinding
http://scatoday.net/node/view/3765?PHPSESSID=d9dceb5179eff8786275c3426b7e8915
A  past Links List on the  subject.

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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:41:57 -0400
From: Iustinos Tekton called  Justin <publisher at scatoday.net>
Subject: Re: [Aoife-Links] By My  Hand: Gloves and Mittens -- Link
correction
To:  aoife-links at scatoday.net
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On Tuesday 27 September 2005  07:17, Aoife wrote:
> Are You Wearing Woolies? Medieval Knitting,  Naalbinding
>  
http://scatoday.net/node/view/3765?PHPSESSID=d9dceb5179eff8786275c3426b7e8915
>  A past Links List on the subject.

The PHPSESSID is unique to each  visitor, and not part of the real link. The
actual link to this article  is:

http://scatoday.net/node/view/3765

Justin